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Step Back History
The Christmas Truce: The Day the War Stood Still
The Christmas Truce was one of the most memorable moments of the First World War. Today, we'll talk about what it was and why it's so damn important to me.
Science360
Fish-enomics
In this episode, Jordan and Charlie discuss the economic benefits of regulating mercury pollution. Researchers at MIT were able to translate the estimated health impacts of mercury pollution for US populations into economic benefits.
Curated Video
Cooking Techniques and History
Cooking is a word used to describe how we prepare food using heat. Learn about different methods of cooking such roasting, baking, boiling, frying, steaming, smoking, and the chemical reactions involved in the processes. Understand how...
Curated Video
Afro-Eurasia
This live-action video program is about the word Afro-Eurasia. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Afro-Eurasia through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Next Animation Studio
Ancient settlement destroyed by comet, research suggests
Impact from a comet around 12,800 years ago is believed to have wiped out a human settlement, according to new research published in Scientific Reports.
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National Parks Service
Yosemite Nature Notes 17: Black Oaks
Changing appearance throughout the seasons, the black oak is one of the iconic trees of Yosemite Valley, and its acorn is used for food by both animals and people.
Weird History
The Most Destructive Pandemics In History
The world is swarming with deadly pandemics, epidemics, diseases, and the history of humanity can certainly attest to this fact. There have been many instances spanning our existence of historic epidemics that threatened humanity.
Hip Hughes History
The Black Death Explained: Global History Review
Just how dark were the Dark Ages? How did the Black Plague kill up to 100 million people and change the face of the Earth?
Oxford Comma
The Dangers of Celebrity Culture: Robinson's "Richard Cory"
In this video we'll perform a reading, summary, and analysis of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory." Written partly as a response to the Panic of 1893, "Richard Cory" challenges the typical notions of success and happiness.
Curated OER
Human PreHistory 101 Part 2: Weathering the Storm
The last ice age occurred around 20,000 years ago. What were the conditions like? How did our ancestors survive them? These questions are briefly explored in a three-minute video clip. See how in a relatively short time, humans spread...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Human Evolution: Humanity on Earth
This session travels the earth tracking the evolution of humanity from the age of the dinosaurs through human beings. [12:26]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Time Scale of the Cosmos: Cosmological Time Scale 1
This video presents different major events in the history of the universe since the Big Bang, in order to put them into the context of time. It tries to demonstrate just how little time has really passed in our recorded human history....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Measuring Age on Earth: Chronometric Revolution
Discussion of the relatively recent changes in our ability as a species to shine light on our deep past. [9:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Humanity on Earth: Development of Agriculture and Writing
Looks at the transition of humans from the Paleolithic Age, when humans used stone tools, up to the development of agriculture in the Neolithic Age, which made settlements possible. The next critical development was the advent of...